Memphis Blues

Mac and Peter playing
"Memphis Blues"

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W.C. Handy
Memphis Blues lyrics

Folks I've just been down, down to Memphis town,
That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while.
Hospitality, they were good to me.
I couldn't spend a dime, and had the grandest time.

I went out a dancing with a Tennessee dear,
They had a fellow there named Handy with a band you should hear
And while the folks gently swayed, all the band folks played Real harmony.
I never will forget the tune that Handy called the Memphis Blues.
Oh yes, them Blues.

They've got a fiddler there that always slickens his hair
And folks he sure do pull some bow.
And when the big Bassoon seconds to the Trombones croon.
It moans just like a sinner on Revival Day, on Revival Day.

Oh that melody sure appealed to me.
Just like a mountain stream rippling on it seemed.
Then it slowly died, with a gentle sigh
Soft as the breeze that whines high in the summer pines.

Hear me people, hear me people, hear I pray,
I'm going to take a million lesson's 'til I learn how to play
Because I seem to hear it yet, simply can't forget
That blue refrain.

There's nothing like the Handy Band that played the Memphis Blues so grand.
Oh play them Blues.
That melancholy strain, that ever haunting refrain
Is like a sweet old sorrow song.
Here comes the very part that wraps a spell around my heart.
It sets me wild to hear that loving tune a gain,
The Memphis Blues.

When W.C. Handy penned "Memphis Blues" back in 1912, he had little idea of the connotations that phrase would come to represent in the years hence. Of the two forms of Memphis Blues, the first arrived along Memphis' Beale Street in the 1920s. Derived from jug bands and vaudeville acts, the music was popularized by the string band styles of the Memphis Jug Band and the tough, but occasionally comic, stylings of Memphis Minnie and Frank Stokes. From this earlier incarnation of Memphis Blues came the idea that rhythm and lead guitars could be assigned specific "parts" to play during the song -- a phenomenon that is virtually standard practice today. The later Memphis Blues was an electric style that began in the early '50s and was a much louder, aggressive form of blues. Featuring amplified, distorted guitars and a heavier drum sound, this later Memphis Blues would prove to be much more influential to how the blues are viewed today.

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Music

Tags:

• Jazz
• Blues
• Traditional
• Dixiland
• MIDI
• Band
• Group
• Vocal
• Harmony
• Trumpet
• Trombone
• Saxophone
• Banjo
• Piano
• Drums
• Bass

[TheFieserfurz]

pretty cool! but nothing for my homework!

[irvinglouislattin]

Excellent performance fellas...

[dodiemuehleisen50]

i wanna download this album again in downloadmusic .im

[MagoMinelli]

I can't seem to find this mp3 anywhere.

Does any one has the original version of this song?

[ericbellhughes]

I'm a Bluesplayer from Memphis- I play blues in the clubs on Beale Street. I can really appreciate this cool version-

I like it!!!

[sanchausa]

WOW!

[jamsession83marco]

God bless those guys!!!

[KrzysztofMonkiewicz]

when I saw the FIRST 3 sec. I thought that will be terrible... but.. when I saw all i can tell now

great JOB!!

[ConfortinDEADHORSE]

BRILLIANT

[DaneKoor]

nicely done! excellent!